
Asa Butterfield
Acting
Born 1997-04-01 · Islington, London, England, UK
Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield (born Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield; 1 April 1997) is an English actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Butterfield first achieved recognition as the lead of the historical drama film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). He continued to headline films during the 2010s, starring in the adventure drama Hugo (2011), the science fiction film Ender's Game (2013), the drama X+Y (2014), and the fantasy Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). From 2019 to 2023, Butterfield portrayed the lead of the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education. Description above from the Wikipedia article Asa Butterfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008 · Movie

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016 · Movie

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010 · Movie

Hugo
2011 · Movie

Ender's Game
2013 · Movie

The Wolfman
2010 · Movie

Stitch Head
2025 · Movie

The Space Between Us
2017 · Movie

Then Came You
2018 · Movie

X+Y
2014 · Movie

Time Freak
2018 · Movie

The Land of Sometimes
2026 · Movie

Journey's End
2017 · Movie

Son of Rambow
2007 · Movie

Slaughterhouse Rulez
2018 · Movie

Greed
2019 · Movie

Choose or Die
2022 · Movie

The House of Tomorrow
2019 · Movie

Your Christmas or Mine?
2022 · Movie

Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023 · Movie

10,000 Saints
2015 · Movie

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012 · Movie

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021 · Movie

All Fun and Games
2023 · Movie

The Mechanical Man at the Heart of 'Hugo'
2012 · Movie

Our Hero, Balthazar
2026 · Movie

Right Place, Wrong Tim
2018 · Movie

Flux Gourmet
2022 · Movie

After Thomas
2006 · Movie

Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime
2012 · Movie

Rogue Trooper
— · Movie

Watch the Skies
2025 · Movie

The Liar
— · Movie

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012 · Movie

If She Burns
— · Movie